Grid Strategy Setup for a Crypto Trading Bot

Next up in our Origami Tech how-to series: setting up a grid strategy. This is one of the key ways to automate trading with bots on the platform. You can either load a ready-made preset (great if you want to get started fast), or create your own logic from scratch for more flexibility. In this post, we’ll show you how both approaches work — and when to use which.

If you’re just getting started with crypto trading, we’ve covered how to create and launch your first bot in the article “Building and Launching a Crypto Trading Bot on Origami Tech.”

Define a grid strategy

There are two ways to configure a trading strategy with Origami Tech. You can either import a ready-made preset or build your own automated crypto trading strategy from scratch. Choose whichever suits your style and experience.

Option 1: import a ready-made preset

Presets are pre-built crypto bot trading strategies you can launch in seconds — no coding or manual setup needed. Created by pro traders, each preset comes with ready-made logic: entry points, order sizes, and exit rules. This makes crypto bot trading easier, faster, and accessible even for beginners.

Instead of configuring every detail, you get a working crypto trading bot from the start — perfect for testing strategies, scaling quickly, or automating trades with minimal effort. Presets are ideal for anyone looking for the best crypto trading bot for beginners or those who want for fast, proven results.

If you want to get started quickly, importing a preset is the fastest way.

To import a preset, click the Import Preset button. In the pop-up window, choose the desired preset from the list. You can switch between the Bot (global crypto trading strategies) and Grid (order grids) categories.

Review the preset parameters on the right side of the window. Click Import to load the selected configuration.

After selecting a preset, its parameters will be displayed on the right side of the window.

The values of the variables can be modified before importing, allowing users to customize the strategy to fit their needs.

After importing, the preset parameters will automatically be entered in the crypto trading bot creation form. You can modify them before saving.

Click Save to save the bot and Save and Exit to exit.

Crypto Bot Strategy Examples: How Presets Work in Origami Tech Platform

1. Spot | RSI Spikes Grid

This preset assumes following a counter-trend, based on the RSI indicator.

What it does:

• Buys crypto when the market is oversold (low RSI, default is 30).
• Sells the token when the market is overbought (high RSI, default is 70).
• Entry prices are calculated automatically based on the current RSI and real-time order book data.

When to use:

• Works well in crypto markets with clear price swings.
• Suitable for digital assets with pronounced boom-bust cycles.

2. Spot | DCA Buy Grid

By enabling this preset in Origami Tech, you tell a crypto trading bot to adopt a Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA), buy-focused strategy.

What it does:

• A bot automatically buys a cryptoasset in equal portions periodically. For example, every 60 seconds, it purchases $20 worth of the tokenas long as the price does not exceed $100, and the bot’s USDT balance is above zero.

When to use:

• Such a preset is useful for accumulating a digital asset in a downtrend.
• It also helps reduce the average entry price and mitigate the risk of sharp drawdowns.

3. Spot | DCA Sell Grid

Strategy Type: Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA), sell-focused.

An example of what this presetdoes:

• A crypto trading bot created in Origami Tech sells $20 worth of the asset every 60 seconds, as long as the current bid price is above the set limit and the base balance is sufficient.

When to use:

• Great for gradually locking in profits during an uptrend.
• Reduces the risk of trying to catch the absolute top of the crypto market.

4. Spot | Target Spread Grid

Strategy Type: Grid strategy based on crypto price spread.

What a crypto trading bot with such a presetdoes:

• Creates a grid of buy and sell orders around the current price of crypto, using a defined spread.
• Uses a fixed spread range to place buy and sell orders around the current market price — between spread_from and spread_to.
• Allows you to automatically profit from small price fluctuations.

When to use:

• Ideal for low-volatility or sideways markets.
• Suitable for assets with frequent but narrow price movements.

Option 2: create a grid from scratch

You can configure an automated grid trading strategy for crypto manually by defining its logic with variables and formulas.

Go to the Bots window again and edit its settings by clicking on the pencil icon:

Press next right away to get to the Grids window. By default you are given a Grid template that you can use to start learning how to build Grids:

You can add and enable as many grids as you need, just click the plus [+] button:

Each grid is a formula containing variables with values that you set yourself. Values can be either flat numbers, or dynamic values, either calculated with math operations or taken from predefined objects like your balance. These objects are created by calling a predefined function balance. 

Getting started, you don’t have to dive too deep into the details here. Here is a screenshot with a very simple grid:

This display shows that we want our bot for automated trading of cryptocurrencies to put in an order once the price reaches the value of 80% of its current level (execute_price). 

Here, we want to spend half of our available balance. To calculate how much we can afford, we need to understand the amount of base crypto we can buy for 1 unit of another asset in a given pair (USDT in most cases) and multiply that by the amount we want to spend (execute_volume). We also need to execute the purchase in one order (buy_order_count). Clicking Save will apply changes to the grid we have been actively adjusting.

It is important to check that all the variables have been defined correctly. Once you’ve confirmed that everything is correct, look at the section to the right from the grid settings called Calculate Grid. The Research button should ‘compile’ your grid settings and transform them into orders:

That is all you have to do to set up a very simple crypto trading bot in Origami Tech.

Want to take your crypto bot trading to the next level? Our docs have everything — from step-by-step bot setup to using tools like custom functions and key indicators (think RSI, EMA, Bollinger Bands). No fluff, just actionable info.